Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.